The National Football League has turned kickers into athletes. What have those solitary sportsmen gotten for all their success? A league hell-bent on tinkering with their craft. Extra-point experts Morten Andersen and Martin …

Thursday night, Charles Barkley went on Inside the NBA and delivered a commentary about the use of “nigger” in locker rooms. Anyone who was expecting something along the lines of what Shannon Sharpe presented on The NFL Todayon Sunday — an emotional appeal for black athletes to intervene and prevent the casual use of degrading racial …